Is it possible to write to a file (on a disk) using JavaScript?

Question

I am a novice-intermediate programmer taking a stab at AJAX. While reading up on JavaScript I found it curious that most of the examples I\'ve been drawing on use PHP for su

Answer 1

No. You could use JavaScript to create an AJAX request to a server-side processing script, but allowing JS to directly write to disk - either client-side or server-side - would be a massive, nasty, glaring, unforgivable browser security hole.